PhD supervision

Current PhD Student: Cosmin Popan on cycling and cities

Profile

Katerina Psarikidou is researcher at the Centre for Mobilities Research of the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. She is currently working as a researcher for the 5-year, 6 million EPSRC project, called Liveable Cities project (see http://liveablecities.org.uk/). She holds a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University and an MA in Bioethics. In the past, she worked as researcher for other, EC and Lancaster University funded, research projects. She has also published and delivered talks and lectures on various areas of Sociology, falling under the following areas of research interest..

Current Research

As a member of the Liveable Cities Project, Katerina is working on mobility innovation for low-carbon cities. Employing a range of 'mobile research methods', her research will build on how to innovate and develop a 'post-car' socio-technical system of mobility and related social practices. As part of the project's Research Challenge 2 on 'Wellbeing and the Liveable City', she examines different types of mobilities and immobilities who amelioration or intensification can contribute to, or provide isnpiration for, re-designing current cityscapes. As part of this research, mobility systems constructed around the physical movement of people and food will be explored.

Research Interests

In addition to research interests mobility innovation for low-carbon cities, Katerina's research interests are also shaped by her past work on various research projects. For her PhD, called Re-imagining Sustainable Agro-Food Futures: Alternative Bio-economies in a Knowledge Society Era', she was examining the political, knowledge and moral economic aspects of rural and urban alternative agro-food networks in England and claiming for their potential to contribute to alternative innovation strategies, research and policy agendas for agriculture and food. Thus, rural and urban sociology, sociology and political economy of agriculure and food, science and technology studies, innovation studies and sociology of scientific knowledge constitute some of the areas of research interest. The latter have also been enriched through her participation in the FP7 EC funded project FAAN ('Facilitating Alternative Agro-Food Networks: Stakeholders Perspectives on Research Needs' - see www.faanweb.eu). Finally, her participation in the FP6 EC funded project PAGANINI (Participatory Governance and Institutional Innovation - see http://www.univie.ac.at/LSG/paganini/) illustrates her research interests in the areas of environmental sociology, environmental politics and biodiversity and nature conservation.

Current Teaching

MA SOCL 521: Environment and Society (lecturing)

MA SOCL 937: Mobilities, Society and Change (lecturing)

UG SOCL 324: Media in a Global Age (lecturing)

In the past, I have also been seminar tutor and guest lecturer for the undergraduate course SOCL 101: Introduction to Sociology of the Sociology Department of Lancaster University.

Katerina Psarikidou & Bronislaw Szerszynski, The moral economy of 'civic food networks' in Manchester, International Conference on Agriculture in an Urbanising Society, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1-4 April 2012.

Maria Kousis & Katerina Psarikidou, NGOs, Local Livelihood and the New Politics of Nature, PAGANINI Final Conference: The New Govermence of Life: Challenges, Transformations and Innovations. Vienna, 11-12 June 2007.

Katerina Psarikidou, Why is the protection of endangered species an issue of bioethical concern?, 2nd Conference on "Bioethical Dilemmas in Life Sciences", Chania, Crete, 20-22 October 2006.

Katerina Psarikidou, Tourism Development and EU Biodiversity Policy in Island Regions: The 'Loggerhead sea turle' case on Zakynthos and Crete, Seminar on "Planning conflicts and their consequences to planning practices, policy making and procedural justice", Fiskars, Finland, 14-15 August 2006

Katerina Psarikidou, Environmental Ethics and EU Biodiversity Policy in Tourism: the 'Caretta caretta Cases' on Zakynthos and Crete, The International Conference of Trends, Impacts and Policies on Tourism Development, Herakleion, 15-18 June 2006

Katerina Psarikidou, Sustainable Tourism Development, the EU Habitats Directive and Caretta Caretta in Greece, The Vth Conference of the Mediterranean Association of the Sociology of Tourism: Mediterranean Tourism Beyond the Coastline: New Trends in Tourism and the Social Organisation of Space, Thessaloniki, 22-24 September 2005